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I like it when it doesn't take me as long to do something as I think it will. It gives me hope! I am now finished writing my Armada review. So I will let it sit over the weekend, and then go over it once or twice to polish it up, and talk to some of my peers, and polish it some more, etc. Hopefully I will manage an A!

In other news, I think I am going to name my jumpdrive Serenity, because of the way its ass flashes. I know, they all do that, but that doesn't mean anything ^-^

I think I will make nachos, then maybe mess around with something non-academic, make those Perseity updates I was talking about earlier, and then delve into the skimming of Forests and Sea Power: the Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, 1652-1862 by Robert Greenhalgh Albion. What a name! I picked this book to review for a number of geeky reasons. First of all, my dad is a natural resources manager for New Brunswick, and our province used to be one of the key sources of ship timber for Great Britain. Canada gets mentioned an awful lot in this book, *stragely* enough, and NB in particular. So I'm being patriotic, and showing loyalty to family tradition as well. My mom was also a forester, I'll note. I'll bet that Rob would be interested in some of the NB stuff too, for/from a King's Landing perspective. Another geeky reason I picked this book is that it is just sooooo nice! It is from the 'Classics of naval Literature' series from the Naval Institute Press. It is a beautifully bound hadcover printed on very high quality paper. It has a page-marking ribbon. It is blue, and of a nice size and weight (about 6" by 8" and 500 pages). It is a pretty sexy book! It even smells nice ^-^ It is pretty long though (...see comment re 500 pages -_-) so I forsee a lot of hardcore skimming/reading this weekend. But not quite yet!